Ambassador Karim Haggag
Ambassador Karim Haggag joined the European Institute of Peace as Senior Advisor for the Palestine Israel Programme in January 2024. He is a career Egyptian diplomat with over 25 years of service in Egypt’s diplomatic corps and is currently serving as a professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He is currently the director of the Masters of Global Affairs program at AUC and a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Throughout his career, he has served in numerous capacities focusing on US-Egyptian relations, Middle East regional security, arms control and non-proliferation, and Arab-Israeli diplomacy. His assignments have included serving as director of the Egyptian Press and Information Office in Washington DC.
In addition to his diplomatic assignments, Haggag was also a visiting professor with the Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington DC (2011-2013). He is a graduate of The American University in Cairo and has earned a master’s degree in war studies from King’s College in London.